Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
SUSAN SONTAGMy idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
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10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.
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How boring just to be a body.
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Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once, and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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I’m only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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Real art has the capacity to make us nervous.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
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